[Intro]
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[Strophe]
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Ain't it just like the night to play
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 tricks when you're trying to be so
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 quiet? 
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet? 
                                  
We sit here stranded, though we're
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 all doing our best to deny it 
We sit here stranded, though we're all doing our best to deny it 
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And Louise holds a handful of rain,
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 tempting you to defy it 
And Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it 
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Lights flicker from the opposite
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 loft, 
Lights flicker from the opposite loft, 
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in this room the heat pipes just
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 cough, 
in this room the heat pipes just cough, 
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the country music station plays soft,
 
the country music station plays soft, 
                                   
but there's nothing, really nothing
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 to turn off 
but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off 
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Just Louise and her lover so
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 entwined, 
Just Louise and her lover so entwined, 
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and these visions of Johanna that
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 conquer my mind.
and these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
[Strophe]
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In the empty lot where the ladies
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 play blind man's bluff with the
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 key chain 
In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain 
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And the all night girls, they whisper
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 of escapades out on the "D" train 
And the all night girls, they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train 
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We can hear the night watchman click
 his flashlight, 
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight, 
                               
ask himself if it's him or them
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 that's really insane 
ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane 
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Louise, she's all right, she's just
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 near 
Louise, she's all right, she's just near 
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She's delicate and seems like the
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 mirror 
She's delicate and seems like the mirror 
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But she just makes it all too concise
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 and too clear, 
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear, 
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that Johanna's not here 
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The ghost of electricity howls in the
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 bones of her face, 
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face, 
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where these visions of Johanna have
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 now taken my place.
where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.
[Strophe]
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Now, little boy lost, he takes
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 himself so seriously 
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously 
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He brags of his misery, he likes to
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 live dangerously 
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously 
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And when bringing her name up he
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 speaks of a farewell kiss to me
 
And when bringing her name up he speaks of a farewell kiss to me 
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He's sure got a lotta gall, 
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to be so useless and all, 
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muttering small talk at the wall, 
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while I'm in the hall 
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Oh, how can I explain, it's so hard
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 to get on? 
Oh, how can I explain, it's so hard to get on? 
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And these visions of Johanna, they
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 kept me up past the dawn.
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn.
[Strophe]
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Inside the museums, infinity goes up
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 on trial 
Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial 
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Voices echo this is what salvation
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 must be like after a while 
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while 
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But Mona Lisa must have had the
                               
 highway blues, you can tell by
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 the way she smiles 
But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles 
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See the primitive wallflower freeze,
 
See the primitive wallflower freeze, 
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when the jelly faced women all
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 sneeze, 
when the jelly faced women all sneeze, 
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hear the one with the mustache say,
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 "Jeeze, I can't find my knees" 
hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze, I can't find my knees" 
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Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from
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 the head of the mule 
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule 
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But these visions of Johanna they
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 make it all seem so cruel.
But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel.
[Strophe]
    A                        
The peddler now speaks to the
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 countess who's pretending to
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 care for him 
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him 
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Saying' "Name me someone that's not a
 parasite, 
Saying' "Name me someone that's not a parasite, 
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and I'll go out and say a prayer for
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 him." But like Louise 
and I'll go out and say a prayer for him." But like Louise 
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always says, "Ya can't look at much,
 can ya man?" as she, herself,  
always says, "Ya can't look at much, can ya man?" as she, herself,  
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prepares for him 
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And Madonna, she still has not showed
 
And Madonna, she still has not showed 
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We see this empty cage now corrode 
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Where her cape of the stage once had
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 flowed 
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed 
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The fiddler, he now steps to the
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 road, 
The fiddler, he now steps to the road, 
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he writes everything s been returned
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 which was owed, 
he writes everything s been returned which was owed, 
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on the back of the fish truck that
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 loads while my conscience
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 explodes 
on the back of the fish truck that loads while my conscience explodes 
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The harmonicas play the skeleton keys
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 and the rain, 
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain, 
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and these visions of Johanna are now
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 all that remain.
and these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.
[Outro]
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